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Former Iowa Jailer Had Sex with Inmate Multiple Times in Utility Closet and Recreation Yard: Authorities 1 August 2022 A former jail employee in Iowa was arrested and charged with multiple crimes for allegedly having a sexual relationship with an inmate that lasted for several months. Kayla...

R.I.P. Randy Weaver Randy Weaver Dies In the infamous Ruby Ridge standoff, federal agents killed his wife and son. 13 May 2022 Randy Weaver died Wednesday, just three months shy of what would have been the 30th anniversary of the 1992 standoff that thrust him into the national spotlight. He...

Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Cops To Unreasonably Extend Traffic Stops 3 June 2022 The Supreme Court made it pretty clear in its Rodriguez decision that pretextual traffic stops were fine, but once the pretext evaporated, it was time to cut civilians loose. We hold that a...

Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy charged with domestic abuse, placed on administrative leave 16 February 2022 A Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy faces charges of domestic abuse assault with intent to inflict serious injury. Robyn Hoppman has served as a deputy for the sheriff’s office...

A SWAT Team Wrongfully Raided Her Home. Now Cops Say Footage From the Raid Is Private Since No One Was Killed. Plus: A wave of educational gag orders, marijuana banking measure moves forward, and more... 3 February 2022 Judge says footage shouldn't be made public. In May 2020, a SWAT team...

Another trigger-happy cop too lazy/dumb/retarded just to step out of harms way! This is what happens when you give an unpaid ill-trained high school teacher a badge and a gun and let him play "volunteer" cop. No criminal charges for Cedar Rapids officer who shot at man following chase Man...

Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...

Can judges really be as stupid as cops? Appeals Court Says It's Entirely Possible For Cops To Pinpoint Marijuana Odors In Moving Cars 14 January 2022 Cops are still claiming they can detect the odor of marijuana in moving vehicles. Not only that, they claim they can pinpoint the source...

State Patrol: Red Oak police officer who struck, killed child Monday identified 11 January 2022 A Red Oak police officer, driving to an apartment fire, struck and killed a child Monday night, were identified according to the Iowa State Patrol. At about 7 p.m. Monday, three Red Oak police...

An Iowa DNR officer shot and killed 19-year-old Shane Jensen His mother says ‘it just destroyed’ her. 21 November 2021 Inside a display case in Krystal Wagner's living room is a pair of boots, an unfinished pack of Marlboro cigarettes opened four years ago and bloody coins. The items were...

Watch officer Michael Owen (Maquoketa, Iowa) and deputy Steven Schroeder (Jackson County, Iowa) murder Drew Edwards Drew Edwards died after Maquoketa officer Tased, sat on him. His sister is still asking for accountability. 21 November 2021 Two sets of handmade lighted angel wings adorn...

Here's Scott County's deputy dog Greg Hill hard at work killing a guy. If he had followed proper procedures, this never would have happened: Mother says Bobby Mitchell, shot and killed by a Scott County deputy, was ‘loving and giving to a fault 21 November 2021 A potted plant thrives in...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

Iowa attorney general hasn't convicted a law enforcement officer in force cases since at least 2004 23 December 2020 When cops pulled over Marquis Jones for loud music one sunny afternoon in October 2017, the 27-year-old Black man got out of his car and ran. — Jones escaped one officer's...

Iowa police body camera video is sometimes revealing — if the public is allowed to see it 1 February 2021 When an Iowa City police officer in 1996 accidentally shot and killed Eric Shaw, an artist working late in his father’s office, Troy Kelsay wasn’t the one who fired the gun but knew...

Opinion: Daunte Wright's killer faced a jury in Minnesota. In Iowa, Autumn Steele's killer did not. After an accidental killing by police in Iowa, one prosecutor substituted her judgment for the judgment of 12 jurors. 27 December 2021 Minnesota and its government officials delivered an...

This Coastal Town Needs Federal Aid for Climate Adaptation. It Will Get a Military Truck Instead. But in Iowa, sheriffs have never even used their “mine-resistant” armored vehicle during blizzards. 23 December 2021 Surfside Beach, South Carolina is on the frontlines of climate change. Rising...

Big Trouble in Little Rock A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard 18 December 2021 1 - Backlash: On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the...

David Ellis (left), Debra Ellis (center), Justin Gilbert (right) Three employees of Des Moines bail bond company charged in yearlong investigation of prostitution and fraud 17 December 2021 Three people were out on bond following an investigation that alleged insurance fraud, credit card...

Former Iowa officer wanted for threatening to kill wife, in-laws is charged with several counts of sex abuse 4 December 2019 A former central Iowa officer who fled the state after allegedly threatening the lives of several family members has been charged with sexual abuse, court records show...